After Australia victory, South Africa need to prove they can win without Kagiso Rabada

Arab News – LONDON: South Africa won the Port Elizabeth Test but lost their pace spearhead.

Summary

Kagiso Rabada sent Australia tumbling to defeat with stunning match figures of 11 for 150, but then discovered that he would miss the next two Tests after one on-field transgression too many.

Rabada was the player his team could least afford to lose, and his impassioned defense, comparing the Rabada-Steve Smith shoulder-brushing incident with David Warner’s stairwell rage in Durban, struck a chord.

In the history of Test cricket, only George Lohmann, who played the last of his 18 Tests in 1896, has a better strike-rate than Rabada among those with more than 100 wickets.

SMITH DOES NOT LIKE LEFTIES
By his exceptional standards, Smith has had a quiet series, with just one half-century and 130 runs in two Tests.

Among the bowlers to have dismissed Smith more than once in Tests, are three lefties.